Improvement in preparing and preserving meat



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HERMANN ENDEMANN, or NEW YORK, Y.

Letters Patent No. 103,728, dated May 31, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING AND PRESERVING- MEAT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern;

and preparing meat by first freeing it from fat, then.

drying it in a suitable oven orkiln at a heat below 140, or at a temperature below the point at which the albumen, fibrin, and other like substances become insoluble in the acids of the stomach; and, finally, re-

dacing said driedmeat to a fine powder, in which state it is ready for the market.

In carrying out my invention I first free the meat from the large masses of fat, by cutting it out, and then I assort the meat into First, such meat as is entirely free fromfat; and

Second, such'meat as contains single cells of fat, such cells being scattered throughout the whole piece, so that their removal becomes impracticable;

The first class will quality than the second.

The meat is then out into pieces about one inch wide, and a half inch thick, and placed on hurdles, which are brought into a drying-room or oven provided with'a good draught, and so constructed that the temperature therein can be regulated and kept below 140 Fahrenheit.

After twentyfour hours the meat loses considerable of vol rune, and it becomes dry, so that it can be readigi're a preparation of better 7 ly pulverized. I then pass it through a mill and reduce it to a fine powder, and in this state it 1s capable to withstand the changes of temperature and climate. It is but very little-hygroscopic, and can be kept in jars of ordinary construction.

By drying it at a temperature below 140, the albumen, fibrin, and other like substances contained in the meat remain soluble in the acids of the stomach, and my prepared meat, therefore, remains easily digestiblc; in fact, on account of its finely divided state, it is even more easily digested than fresh meat. It can be used for soup, or, when moistened with water, for various dishes. It has no disagreeable taste, and it forms the most concentrated nourishment for the human body.

My meat-powder, therefore, is particularly. adapted as a nourishment'in cases of consumption, and all other cases of debility'where it is requisite to provide the body of the sick with asurplus of nourishment,

and it is particularly adapted for the use of armies, and

on seagoing vessels.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The within-described process of preparing meat for preservation and nourishment, by first freeing it from fat, then drying it in a suitable oven or kiln, at a temperature below 140, and, finally, reducing it nto-a iine powder, all as herein set forth.

Also, meat-powder, prepared as herein described.

H. ENDEMANN, M. D.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KAsTnsHUBnn. 

